Tag: zenit

This week's Camera Collection is proof that analogue love could run in your family's blood. Community member @japsix from Sevastopol shows us her father's massive medley of Russian cameras that her mom won't even allow to be kept in the house because there's just so many!

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The Zenit E, one of Russia's first and finest! The well-known Russian tank, a camera with a cold, metal heart. You have got your hands on one of these fine babies but how do you load/unload your film, what lenses do you need, or does it even work properly?! I hope most of you will know how to get along with their Russian friend after reading this guide!

Hungry for another installment of Camera Collections? Well, you'll certainly get fed today with Canadian community member @deepfried_goodness's humble but hearty caboodle of analogue gear! And when we asked how much film he had, he said "a freezer full." Yum!

Young Ukrainian photographers Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven—collectively known as Synchrodogs—prefer Contax film cameras over digital. It might be risky to shoot analogue for fashion jobs, but since their contemporary and crazy imaginative style is founded on "risqué," more clients, commissions and a book deal naturally followed.

The Zenit E is a 1960s survivor; short on features, but solid and tough in a way only Russian cameras can be. Cheap, cheerful, and made in the millions, it's an often-overlooked camera deserving a re-appraisal. Quantity has a quality of its own, after all.

"swieconek":http://beta.lomography.com/homes/swieconek from the community visited a fleamarket some time ago in Bruges, Belgium and came across some real vintage goodies: A store booklet containing original Dutch ads for Russian cameras in their youth (1968)!

This is my go-to camera when I need an extra bit of control. This SLR is heavy as a brick, clunky, and oddly comforting to hold. A bit of a tank. On the outside it looks much like it's older Zenit siblings, but it's the inside that counts.

It's raw. It's grainy. It has poor dynamic range. It's a leak-catcher. It's expired Konica VX (35mm, 200 ISO), and it's soooo awesome! Learn more about this great partner for the Lomo LC-A after the jump!

The Zenit 12 SD represents one of the last 'unbreakable' Zenit cameras, built like a tank. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to handle like one too, but once you master it the combination of reliability and excellent optics (58mm Helios lens) become persuasive.

22-year-old Maria Kazvan studies Journalism, though this isn't her passion. She loves taking people's portraits and strives to fully capture expressions on her subject's faces so as to expose their underlying emotions. Brimming with ideas and passion, we expect her photographic desires, explained in the interview, will soon come to fruition!

The tiny Industar 50-2 is probably the smallest lens for a reflex camera. It's well-suited for my old Zenit EM, a camera built as a tank! Enjoy this strange Zenit adventure in search of urban geometries!

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The Zenit EM is like all the other Zenits: heavy, built like a tank, but capable of some lovely photographs thanks to the lenses it comes with. Everyone should try one out, as they are cheap, cheerful, and full of history. Find out my opinion and more in this review.

Having photographed people with a telephoto lens with a DSLR before, I realized how hard it is to get a great "stealth" shot of strangers with a camera with manual control, manual focus and not being able to review the shots!

I was ecstatic to find an old Fed 3 going cheap in a thrift store. Some real Soviet-era heavy metal for my collection of cameras. It looked great. Nice clear lens, shiny chrome bits, and everything seemed to move as it should. So I bought it and took it home.

Did you know that a lot of the tried-and-tested cameras and lenses that you know and love were once manufactured by just one camera company? From the Zorki to the Iskra, to the Horizon and even the new Lomography Petzval Lens, Zenit has been around to see quality camera production through and through. Learn more about the Russian optical manufacturer here.

During my first year of Lomographic Studies, I only had a Fisheye Camera and Colorsplash Camera in my arsenal. I was literally craving for an LC-A so I decided to have a father-and-son talk with my dad about the legendary camera, hoping he might be impressed enough to buy me one. My plan backfired as he told me he already has a Soviet product in his collection, being a camera enthusiast himself.